It’s late morning and steam is rising from water tanks atop the colourful but opaque-windowed “soapland” sex parlours in a ...

From sushi spots and flavourful ramen to charcoal-grilled unagi and seafood donburis, more restaurants in the Japanese ...

Detailed information for Culture Experience WASAKE Sake Experience located in the Asakusa area.Taste and compare 50 brands of ...

The four associations, whose streets form an approximately 3 km-long thoroughfare in Tokyo's Taito Ward, established Tokyo Kokusai-dori Shinko-kai in November, a committee to promote the thoroughfare ...

From sushi and ramen to tempura and soba, Tokyo has long been famed as nirvana for foodies – a status confirmed by the fact that it’s home to the world’s highest concentration of Michelin ...

In the heart of Asakusa's Kappabashi 'Kitchen Town' district, you'll find this shrine to all things fake food-related. Ganso Shokuhin Sample-ya has been producing plastic replicas for display in ...

Asakusa's stationery great Kakimori is the force behind this ink-only specialist shop that allows you to create your very own colour: choose three basic colours from a range of 16 options, use the ...

In Taito Ward, which is home to historic districts like Asakusa, 18 of 19 public elementary schools have uniforms although they do not oblige pupils to wear them. But uniforms are not adopted by ...

Born during World War II in Tokyo’s Minato Ward and raised in the Asakusa district of Taito Ward, Kimura was the youngest of three sisters. After the war ended, residents in the capital ...